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Thursday, March 28, 2013 Stork and Reaper for the Week of March 28, 2013 Brain SurgeryOn March 28, Sentinel promoted three executives to the level of portfolio manager for two funds. Jason Doiron will take over as lead portfolio manager for the Sentinel Conservative Strategies Fund. Meanwhile, Jason Wulff will assume the lead portfolio management responsibilities for the Sentinel Growth Leaders Fund. He will be joined by co- manager Hilary Roper. PregnanciesOn March 27, Eaton Vance [profile] has filed with the SEC to launch a new kind of ETF. On March 27, WisdomTree [profile] has filed for approval to launch two funds: the WisdomTree Brazil Low Volatility Equity Index and the WisdomTree Brazil Bond Fund. IndexUniverse reports that Guinness Atkinson [profile] has filed to launch its own passive ETFs. BirthsOn March 27, Natixis Global Asset Management [profile] has launched the Aurora Horizons Fund. On March 27, AQR [profile] launched three core equity funds: the AQR Core Equity Fund; the AQR Small Cap Core Equity Fund and the AQR International Core Equity Fund. On March 27, Aberdeen [profile] launched the Aberdeen Latin American Equity Fund and the Aberdeen European Equity Fund. On March 26, $7-billion AUM shop Aspiriant unveiled its first mutual fund, the Aspiriant Risk-Managed Global Equity Fund. The new fund is powered by AQR Capital Management [profile], Dimensional Fund Advisors [profile] and Parametric Risk Advisors [profile]. On April 1, DoubleLine Capital [profile] will launch its first equities mutual fund, the DoubleLine Equities Small Cap Growth Fund. The launch of the open-end, domestic stock mutual fund follows DoubleLine's recent hiring of TCW equity PMs Husam Nazer and Brendt Stallings to lead the brand new DoubleLine Equity unit. On March 25, Neuberger Berman introduced the Neuberger Berman New York Municipal Income Fund. AdvisorShares has launched the AdvisorShares Newfleet Multi-Sector Income ETF. DeathsOn March 27, Vanguard [profile] filed plans to reorganize the Vanguard Florida Focused Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund into the Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund.Check back as we continue to update this column throughout the week. If you have a mutual fund launch or product change that you would like to announce, contact the MFWire team at editors@investmentwires.com. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=43390 Copyright 2013, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |